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Improvement Through Inspection? : Complementary Approaches to School Development
The title of this book poses the question whether the motto of the Office for Standards in Education is an apt statement of its effects in practice. Beginning with the state of knowledge about OFSTED's early impact, the Editors review the range of complementary approaches to school improvement - most of them driven by the scnools themselves - that are in operation, alongside the OFSTED system of inspection.
The major part of the book is taken up with the main 'quality initiatives' that are al Work in primary and secondary schools - including Investors in People, Deming. TOM, partnerships, professional competence, strategic planning and effective governorship. Each chapter examines critically - sometimes with the aid of case studies of geod-practice - the benefits such approaches might bring to schools in their attempts to raise standards.
The book is a companion to OFSTED Inspections: the Early Experience by the same Editors, published simultaneously.
The Editors
PETER EARLEY, is Senior Lecturer, and JANET OUSTON is Head at the Management Development Centre, University of London Institute of Education; BRIAN FIDLER is Senior Lecturer in Educational Management at the University of Reading. All three have matie major contributions to the research and publication output on school Improvement and related issues in the last two decades, as have many of their contributors.
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